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The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

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Wait, the leagues get paid to salute the military? Holy crap. I (naively, I guess) assumed they were doing it gratis as an actual thank you.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Wait, the leagues get paid to salute the military? Holy crap. I (naively, I guess) assumed they were doing it gratis as an actual thank you.
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Nope. All that crap is paid advertising to renew the ranks of the poor suckers getting killed for corporate profits, er, brave lads defending (sniff) our freedom.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Wait, the leagues get paid to salute the military? Holy crap. I (naively, I guess) assumed they were doing it gratis as an actual thank you.
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Ha, you think the NFL does anything it does get paid for.

How else does the US military get to call themselves the official military of the NFL?!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Wait, the leagues get paid to salute the military? Holy crap. I (naively, I guess) assumed they were doing it gratis as an actual thank you.
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The thank you comes in the fact that the ad time would've gone for $7 million to any other organization. The NFL is $1 million thankful to the US armed forces.
 
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Trouble in derpland.

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham said Thursday night that the Republican establishment should "pull the plug" on House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) bid to become House speaker.
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They're getting started on McCarthy early. This may just be Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes to intimidate the opposition -- the crazies think McCarthy's going to be easy to steamroll and they are probably just showing him the instruments of torture in advance as a mind game.
 
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The annual apocalypse has been moved up from December to November 5th.

The Treasury Department said Thursday Congress must lift the debt limit by Nov. 5, putting House Republicans in a tricky spot during an already hectic fall.
It will either be one of Kevin McCarthy's first tasks as speaker, or one of John Boehner's last.

In a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the federal government is taking in less revenue than it had anticipated. Lew said the federal government therefore must increase its borrowing authority in five weeks or face the prospect of a catastrophic default.

For House Republicans, a vote to increase the debt limit is one of the toughest they ever have to cast. Boehner has had to rely on a core group of his members plus House Democrats to get the measure through the chamber in the past few years. The battle over the debt limit was so bitter in 2011 that U.S. government's credit rating was downgraded, an unprecedented move.
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Remind me again why we don't just abolish the debt ceiling?
 
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Kepler said:
Trouble in derpland.



They're getting started on McCarthy early. This may just be Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes to intimidate the opposition -- the crazies think McCarthy's going to be easy to steamroll and they are probably just showing him the instruments of torture in advance as a mind game.
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Basically the issue is that McCarthy is essentially Boner 2.0, and nothing is going to change if McCarthy is speaker. The GOP is right now at a crossroads: Does it decide to use the platforms that were able to get it back into a fighting position to restore it to prominence, or do they simply go with the old and busted rhetoric derp that they've been proclaiming since their beloved actor was in office, resulting in the movements becoming demotivated and the commies taking another election? It's obvious that you, Grover, Scooby, and the like want old and busted to win out.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
It's obvious that you, Grover, Scooby, and the like want old and busted to win out.
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I certainly don't want a major American political party adopting the barely-concealed nativist agenda of the TPers. OTOH, I don't want the Neocons' less well-concealed fascism back. If you've got a way for the GOP to shoot both of those evil fringes into the sun, I'm all ears.
 
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